Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs is the latest elected official to call for an environmental review of Pinyon Plain uranium mine.
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Dr. Laura Crossey explains what scientists know about groundwater in the Grand Canyon region.
More than 275,000 pounds of radioactive materials imported from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency headed to Utah’s White Mesa Mill.
Developer’s attempt to dam a canyon near the confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers halted.
White Mesa Ute community leaders testify in Washington D.C. about how Utah’s White Mesa uranium mill, near Bears Ears, affects their lives.
A new federal policy requiring tribal consent for dams on tribal lands is a historic victory for tribal sovereignty across the United States.
Glen Canyon Dam flooded over 180 miles of the Colorado River to form Lake Powell and provide power. How does the dam work?
Currently, developers don’t have to get permission from tribes when applying for dam permits on tribal lands.
Where does the U.S. get uranium? Hint: Not the Grand Canyon region.
“We want to have healthy lives. We want to have access to clean water,” says Chairman Manuel Heart.
Estonian-owned oil shale giant is barred from siphoning 100 billion gallons of water from a Colorado River tributary.
Radioactive waste remains partially uncovered in enormous waste pits at the White Mesa Mill, on the doorstep of Bears Ears National Monument.
New dams proposed near Kayenta would pump water from the Colorado River, San Juan River, or local aquifers.
An Estonian oil shale giant is trying to lock up water that would flow into the Colorado River. Will Utah allow it?
Documents reveal radioactive waste from Estonia shipped to the White Mesa Mill near Bears Ears National Monument.
Miners have pumped more than 49 million gallons of water laced with uranium and arsenic out of a mine near the Grand Canyon.
There’s something fishy about the water right for a massive oil shale facility in northern Utah.
America has changed a lot since 1872, but our mining laws have not.
The United States imports about 16 percent of its uranium from Russia, 22 percent from Canada, and 11 percent from Australia.
It’s time for the thousands of orphan wells across the Colorado Plateau to be closed and cleaned up.
Land manager hits pause on a plan to lease 2,100 acres of public lands for tar sands mining.
The nuclear power industry is asking President Trump’s working group to lift mining bans.
President Trump denied a request for uranium import quotas, but efforts continue to prop up the industry.
Could a wild corner of Utah become the site of the nation’s first commercial-scale oil shale strip mine and processing plant?
The Grand Canyon region is too culturally, historically, and economically important to mine for uranium.
Over 500 truckloads of radioactive waste have arrived on the doorstep of the Ute Mountain Ute tribal community of White Mesa.
What is the Forest Service thinking about changing, why, and what will it mean for your national forests?
Enefit’s oil shale project would suck over 100 billion gallons of water from the Colorado River Basin over the next three decades.
The Supreme Court has put an end to the legal challenge to the Grand Canyon mining ban.
It’s been decades since the U.S. has seen a rush to the hills for uranium. But under the Trump administration, that could be about to change.